Study Prof

Wouldn’t it be nice if next semester was super-simple and actually required much less work than this semester?  What if you could make that happen while still taking all the classes you need?

Many of you are now starting your winter vacations, traditionally a time for students to decompress and forget all about THE HELL THAT WAS FINALS.  But most good study skills boil down to NOW-is-better-than-later.

A tiny bit of study during the holidays can save you HOURS a week next semester (and beyond)!  Do a quick assessment of your classes this past semester.  Which ones had content that you’ll be expected to know in the future?  Examples…

• You took the first semester of Calculus this semester and the second semester is this coming spring
• You took Statistics and will be applying those concepts throughout your future career
• Your Paleo-ethnobotany course was mostly useless, except for those two weeks you spent on palynology

Anything you studied last semester that might come up again you should take home with you and study over the break.  It is fresher in your mind now than it will ever be again!  This is prime time to study it.  Just reviewing it for thirty-minutes or so once a week will help move that info into your permanent long term memory!  Do it while driving too and from relatives’ houses or while waiting in line at the mall.

Next semester, when everyone else is playing catch-up at the beginning of that second semester of Biochem, trying to relearn all the stuff they’ve forgotten from the first semester, you’ll already know it all!  No studying for you!

Do a little now and you’ll avoid doing a lot later!

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